i'm thinking... pastels!

[cimorene]

[Poll #1304608]

Nothing edible is on this list, because I rarely consider edible things a luxury, even chocolate. If you go to the store for milk or garbage bags and buy that and chocolate, I don't really consider it an impulse buy, because it's not like you don't need chocolate, and you don't want to run out, and it's not like you can have too much, either. And I don't ever buy utterly cheap chocolate like Hershey's bars (not that they even have the equivalent here, I don't think) because I don't consider it edible. Where I do draw the line is between decent chocolate (Fazer, Lindt) and gourmet chocolates (Guylian, Ferrero Rocher, handmade truffles). Gourmet chocolate is a luxury and I actually buy it very rarely because good decent chocolate is already so good that I rarely actually crave the fantastic kind (not just Guylian but this little local shop in my hometown, Nolan's, that made handmade truffles in all kinds of liquer flavours, but ohhh, how I crave the Irish Creme ones. *_* @_@ And amaretto! And Grand Marnier!). That said, Ferrero Rochers are always an appropriate gift. My parents used to give them to me yearly in big boxes for Channukah, Valentine's Day, and Easter, but I've never been able to convince Wax that I'm a pretty princess who deserves pampering with special chocolates - she's more the kind to buy a box of filled chocolates (but not the gourmet ones) every other time she goes to the store. Which, in the long run, is probably more useful anyway.

I've been planning to get good coloured pencils and other art supplies - markers, drawing paper, crayons - for my niece for Christmas, and I noticed today that the store I was planning to buy them at doesn't have Prismacolor. They've got a whole shelf of Faber Castell products and another display taking up the whole wall where they sell them one colour at a time and then a smaller one of that other pencil brand that starts with a W and sounds British and another of Derwent, but no Prismacolor! I don't know if Prismacolor are the best pencils in the world, but I know that they're excellent and they're my brand. (It's like, okay, Chevy and Ford people - and several of my uncles and cousins feel VERY strongly about those things, but I don't care about cars.) I know that FCs are good - I think I have some, in the big bundle of spare pencils my mom sent me last summer - so it should be fine - but... I hate having my plans upset. And they don't have boxes of Crayola crayons. :O I can't give her pastels. That would just be cruel (to her parents).

Comments

[omega-h.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the little chocolate shop at the center? I don't eat chocolate with alcohol but TR thought they were quite good.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

I've never noticed them before! (I seem to have this conversation several times a week. XD)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I love Prismacolor, too. And it's what everyone ever used in every art class I was in (college-level, art major sort of classes, not just some Saturday afternoon at the Y class). So I feel justified in asserting their clear superiority!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Derwent watercolour pencils are pretty good though, too. They don't have the same texture, but the intensity of colour is still there, none of that waxiness you get with cheap pencils, and of course if you want to paint over with water the different texture is to be expected...?